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Subject: Re: Bullseye Bulletin Date: Tue Jul 02 2024 02:03 pm
From: Gamgee To: Nightfox

-=> Nightfox wrote to Amessyroom <=-

 Ni>   Re: Bullseye Bulletin
 Ni>   By: Amessyroom to All on Mon Jul 01 2024 09:01 pm

 Am> Both .ASC and .CFG have to be updated by hand. And .ASC seems to use
 Am> Control-A codes, that I'm not familiar with. But was able to copy and reuse
 Am> most that were in the original file.

 Am> Am I making this process more difficult than it is ?  Is there a way to
 Am> auto-generate the menu (.asc) from the file slisted in the .cfg file?

 Am> Are there other bulletin tools that automate this?

 Ni> I haven't seen anyhing to auto-generate the bulletin menu.  For
 Ni> that, and the .asc files with Ctrl-A codes, normally what I do is
 Ni> use an ANSI editor and then convert it to Ctrl-A codes using
 Ni> ans2asc (which is a tool that comes with Synchronet).

Agree and that's how I do it too.  The ans2asc utility is documented on 
the Wiki.



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